Reflecting the constancy and change of a solo catalogue dating from 2004, Melbourne based artist and producer Tim Guy has assumed the alias Steady Garden for an eponymous new album.
Steady Garden signals a shift away from familiar comforts into a phantasmagoria of urban unrest rippling with light, airy funk.

‘Rebel’ is the album’s debut single, its exposed vocals floating across a post-1980 landscape leaving strange shadows of Bowie’s and Byrne's new wave era. With an arrangement organised and rich like a backyard party under tennis lights, ‘Rebel’ evokes surface luxury while expressing an outsider’s ennui and desire for a deeper connection.

our new album ‘Playing Dead’ is out everywhere now!  Stream/Order below https://obscurahail.lnk.to/playingdead-lp


// MGMT/Booking - obscurahail@gmail.com
// Licensing - FO PAS + BMG - adam@yoursandowls.com.au  
// LBL - @dotdashrecordings

Sean - Geet/Vox/Prod
Tam - Bass/Vox
Kaelan - Kit/Vox

I'm in the band Obscurahail.  This is a place to keep demos and half baked ideas. Enjoy :)

I have so many unreleased jamz and song ideas I've decided to put some of them here. Sadly most of them I cant find because HDs disappear. I have at least 3 albums of (often terrible) material that I'll never find again. But as I find lost tracks I'll try and put them here even if they suck.

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"SHEAHAN DRIVE recordings," is a name for Gus Franklin's composition, sound & music works.  I also do music production, mixing and mastering work under this name.  It's also a label to release the recordings i work on, with the general theme being; 'music from the ether...with folk themes and stories of Australiana.'  

I chose to use the name SHEAHAN DRIVE in 2005, after visiting a cast-iron piece of sculptural art in the form of a giant sign on the side of two roads around the small NSW town of Gundagai.  The sign creates an iconic, silhouetted image on the sky and surrounding landscape, and was an image that struck a chord with me and my relationship to that area, and the Australian landscape as a whole. It seemed to me at the time to be some kind of beacon and encapsulation of the themes and ideas i felt and wished to explore in music about the ancient heart of Australia, the (sometimes)dark and undeniably magical spirits in the landscape, and the effect of the country on all who inhabit it, or pass through.

In 2008, after carrying out a 3 month North American residency in the island community of Anacortes, I needed an artist name under which to release the resultant album i had created there.("small town tales of mythical PORTACORTES").  Not wishing to use my own name, i chose the SHEAHAN DRIVE moniker to represent this album and my performances of songs from it.

My name is Gus, please contact me if you like my things or have any ideas for projects we could do together.

Pop music. We guess you could call it lo-fi, but that's not it. Sometimes it's shimmering and intricate. Intimate? Yes, but again there's more to it than that. Surreal? Dreamy? Sometimes, not always, sometimes it's really upbeat. It's difficult to explain.
Six albums in and each one has been a bright-eyed reinvention of himself, adding more chapters to a richly rewarding songbook that listeners are continuing to discover and cherish.

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